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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:05 pm
by GORDON
http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q1/cpus/index.x
Very interesting.,
They even benchmark with SupCom.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:35 pm
by GORDON
I was surprised to see SupCom really DID NOT take advantage of a quad core... since Chris Taylor said it would.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:03 pm
by TheCatt
I'd probably grab a Core 2 Duo E6400 and overclock it until it started to glow, if I were putting together a system right now
Yeah.
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 4:40 pm
by GORDON
Don't buy yet.
Intel will be releasing a few new CPUs and cutting prices on April 22. The E6320 and E6420 for example, identical to their 6x00 counterparts except with 4mb of L2 cache. They'll go for $163 and $183 respectively.
Benchmarks for next month's processors with price list:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... e6420.html
A 20-30% price cut is expected from AMD on April 9.
Even now the prices Techreport lists are outdated! The Athlon X2 4600+ dropped to $122] a week ago - faster and cheaper than the $170 4400+ techreport tested (which is actually more like $159).
So now someone needs to plug these new prices into the comparison and see if it adjusts anything. New prices may move around which chip is the equivalent of another, price-point wise.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:29 pm
by GORDON
Hey, these Intel dual-core jobbies... are they 32 bit, or 64 bit? I really don't want to go back to 32 bit.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:58 pm
by TheCatt
32-bit, but they have a 64-bit instruction set on top of them, I believe, which allows them to run Windows 64.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:11 pm
by GORDON
So it's an additional software layer? Sounds like you just told me I could run Windows apps on Linux using Wine.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:27 pm
by TheCatt
I dunno, Google it.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:31 pm
by GORDON
Do my own research? Pshaw.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:21 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:45 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:49 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:42 pm
by TheCatt